Russian Supreme Court upheld the 12-year imprisonment of a transgender anti-war activist Mark Kislitsyn, stated Amnesty International on Wednesday. The group said convicting the activist of high ...

solitary confinement, malnutrition and rape. But in the past two decades, a third force has begun affecting Russia’s prison population as tens of thousands of Muslims have been convicted of ...

Riza Izetov, a Crimean Tatar human rights activist sentenced by a Russian court to 19 years in prison, has reported harsh ...

Amnesty released an appeal for Russian authorities to release a trans activist who is being held in “inhuman and degrading ...

It was designed to be the largest and most modern solitary confinement facility in Europe with 999 individual cells. Before the Russian revolution in 1917, it housed enemies of the Tsarist state ...

Of that massive number, over 122,000 US citizens are forced to endure solitary confinement for at least 22 hours a day. Solitary confinement is the brutal practice of stuffing people into closet ...